In today’s rapidly evolving digital infrastructure landscape, attention has been focused on the construction of new hyperscale data centers. These billion-dollar campuses often dominate headlines, but there is also an urgent need to retrofit thousands of existing data centers to meet the surging demands of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI).
This “silent demand” is reshaping the data center ecosystem. Globally, there are approximately 12,000 data centers — many of which are smaller facilities located at the edge of urban centers or suburban areas. Many of these facilities should be modernized to effectively transition from traditional data storage and processing roles to supporting AI-driven workloads, which require significantly more power, advanced equipment, and sophisticated engineering solutions.